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Wendy gave me a great idea! It really worked!
Pssssst! Hey, Jason. I know how you could get that!
Wow! I would really like to be able to buy that talking pet robot fish!
What is a big goal you’d like to achieve? Is it saving money, improving how well you play a sport, or completing a big homework project? You can do it by remembering this simple trick: BREAK YOUR GOAL INTO SMALLER GOALS. By doing that, a big, challenging project becomes a few simple, little projects instead! It’s like eating an apple. You can’t stuff the whole thing in your mouth at once. But you can take a bite at a time. I know you can’t buy much these days with only a few pennies. But a few pennies dropped into a piggy bank day after day will really add up!
So I made a goal to save $10. After I did that, I made the goal to save $10 again.
I got the pet robot fish by first setting a goal to save the money to buy it. The fish costs $59!
That seemed like an enormous amount of money, but Wendy suggested I think of the $59 as a series of smaller goals.
How many di erences can you nd between these two pictures of April?
April wanted to be able to sink 25 baskets in a row. At first she could only sink about three in a row. Twenty-five was a big goal, but breaking it into smaller goals saved the day. First, April set the goal of sinking five baskets in a row. Then 10, then 15, then 20, and finally—she did it! April sank 25 baskets in a row!
© Vicki Whiting October 2025
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